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Little Lord Fauntleroy

[ fawnt-luh-roi ]

noun

  1. (italics) a children's novel (1886) by Frances H. Burnett.
  2. a pampered or excessively well-behaved young boy resembling the hero of this book.
  3. Also called Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. Fauntleroy suit.


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She also used the new site to attack Mr. Penske, calling him “Little Lord Fauntleroy.”

She started a new blog and used it to refer to him as “Little Lord Fauntleroy.”

The year before that, Schroder, whose acting credits include “NYPD Blue,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and “Silver Spoons,” was arrested twice in a 30-day span on suspicion of felony domestic violence against his girlfriend.

Vanity Fair called him "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and New York Magazine once heralded the two brothers as "NYC’s Most Beautiful Teenage Brothers."

In 2015, Corbet made his directing debut, The Childhood of a Leader, starring Robert Pattinson – a period piece about a Little Lord Fauntleroy tyke who grows up to be a fascist dictator.

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